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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉

@xiananj.bsky.social
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Academic at University of Exeter (Cornwall). Gender & Class | Transnational Feminist Solidarity | Africa and E-Asia | Decolonisation. Book MS in progress: Neoliberal Authoritarianism in Rwanda.

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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New article on feminist ethnography method 🧚‍♀️ I started writing this piece probably since 2017 - good that it is finally out for colleagues to read and comment. Feel free to text me about what you think 🫶🏼
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Exeter Green Party @exetergreens.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Exeter Green Party stands in solidarity with the Exeter University and College Union in condemning the University of Exeter’s announcement of sweeping job cuts. These plans will recklessly imperil the University’s vital contributions to the social, cultural, and economic life of the city. 1/4
Graphic which reads: Statement of solidarity with Exeter University and College Union.
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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
They tell me: early bird fee is much cheaper, and there is only one week left 👀 Will you join our exciting online method course in Feb? ✌️
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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... the more oil we get from the sea, the costal line will eat us sooner one day 🔫🔫🔫
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$170,000 a minute: why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action
Desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?
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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Cannot wait to run this gig again in Feb 2026! Methods are literately 🔑 for solid data collection. How to do ethnography ethically and creatively? Happy to share my fieldwork in Rwanda & new thoughts on creative art approach as I am still on the learning curve 🧗🏻‍♀️🗻 Msg if you got any questions 🙋🏻‍♀️
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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Looking forward to tomorrow’s gig on Citizen Marx by @brunoleipold.com. @cais-exeter.bsky.social @hass-cornwall.bsky.social
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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Sunday read: Written out - The Silence of Regina Gelana Twala. By Joel Cabrita How do we write about marginalised people when they are erased from histories?
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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Sunday reading: Making the World Clean - wasted lives, wasted environment, and racial capitalism. By Françoise Vergès
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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Cannot believe it starts again 🙀Freshers in law, politics, history, and environment humanities in Penryn today. @hass-cornwall.bsky.social
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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
How river thinks?
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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Sunday reading on capitalism ‘Vulture capitalism’ by @graceblakeley.substack.com
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Catherine Owen @catherineowen.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Excited to be offering our bespoke fieldwork methods course "Doing Fieldwork in Challenging Contexts" with @xiananj.bsky.social for @komex.bsky.social next February, alongside a truly fantastic line-up of courses - with something for every methodological persuasion!
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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Think gender is just theory or women's issues? Think again. 🌊 Study Gender Studies in Cornwall @hass-cornwall.bsky.social and explore how the personal is political and how the unspoken norms shape our lives. Watch our video: youtu.be/dZQJ-TFCNT0?...
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Gender - Dr Xianan Jin, Lecturer in African and Gender Politics
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Prof. Catriona Pennell @teachlearnwar.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
History is as much about remembering as forgetting. At @hass-cornwall.bsky.social historians explore the intentional forgetting that reveal more about society's political choices than any moment of collective remembering. Find out more via our new ‘Research Shorts’: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCjj...
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Forgetting - Professor Catriona Pennell, Professor in Modern History and Memory Studies
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Frederick Harry Pitts @fhpitts.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
'Reindustrialisation’ is now a buzzword across the political spectrum. At @hass-cornwall.bsky.social we are surrounded by resurgent industries rooted in place and strategically pivotal to security & sustainability. Hear more in our new 'Research Shorts' series of videos: youtu.be/oPIDKPX7jcc?...
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Reindustrialisation - Dr Frederick Harry Pitts, Senior Lecturer in Politics
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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
I like Sanders but authoritarianism did not start with Trump. Slavery happened there decades ago www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Sanders warns of authoritarianism after Trump deploys national guard to LA
Senator says the future of the US ‘rests with a small number of Republicans in the House and Senate who know better’
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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
open.substack.com/pub/xiananji... I write personal stuff here…
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Cuddle Cuddle Cuddle
At the end of the term, my colleague kindly gave me a ride home from campus.
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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Some bath-time thoughts on female-only spaces and sexuality: open.substack.com/pub/xiananji...
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On bathrooms
I am writing this from a bath tub in my house, more precisely it’s my partner’s private property on legal terms.
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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
my first Substack article driven by the repulsion against the absence of public infrastructure in the US during my first visit here. There is nothing public in the US open.substack.com/pub/xiananji...
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There is nothing public in the US
This would be my first substack article. This is also my first visit in the US.
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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Feeling so lucky to work in a university - free books! Good finds this morning with my guest lecturer Hannah Levene today at the Exeter&Falmouth library. Hannah talked on Yiddish language, anarchism and queerness 🙌 second last week of the term: feels rewarding this time 🥹
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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
VERY excited to go to Leiden to give this talk 👇 Hope to see you there or online 👋 @hass-cornwall.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social @cais-exeter.bsky.social
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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
My friend’s film Spirits of Land is on for the Joburg film Festival. Don’t miss it - real good cinematographic footage of the land struggles of black people in South Africa. Cannot remember how many times I have recommended to my friends and colleagues.
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Catherine Owen @catherineowen.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Dinner with these two awesome scholars @xiananj.bsky.social and @zhengli-huang.bsky.social after Zhengli’s incredibly rich and thought-provoking talk on Chinese infrastructure development in Africa at HaSS Cornwall @hass-cornwall.bsky.social Cheers! 🥂
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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Been in bed for 5 days fighting a flu. Got out of bed today and got into my first social conversation in a pub now. Such disorientation! once people start about football, I was like: omg I am in England! Again!
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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Excited to go to Belfast in June ✊🏼
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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
just read a student essay and suspected done by an AI. it took me so long to read it and understand it. I guess it is because an AI essay has a lot of content but no coherence at all.
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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Judith Butler noted, “It's unclear whether Trump is watching Netanyahu and Erdoğan, whether anyone is watching Bolsonaro, whether Bolsonaro is watching Putin, but I think there are some contagious effects.' academic.oup.com/isr/article/...
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The Misogyny of Authoritarians in Contemporary Democracies
Abstract. Contemporary democracy in multiple countries has been under assault from what has been variously called right-wing populism, authoritarian populi
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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
It gives me goosebumps to see how Trumpist authoritarianism under the cover of democracy travels to other late democracies like South Korea www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Why supporters of South Korea’s impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol are flying US flags
The prominence of the US flag at conservative rallies reflects a complex intersection of religion, politics and identity that defines South Korea’s far-right movement
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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Cannot wait to teach this course and meet a new cohort of participants 🎶 register now for the early bird fee 🤓
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
An utterly damning and horrific image.
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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Over the past few years, the media has extensively reported on a new form of trafficking in persons that has emerged in the context of the online scam industry—a phenomenon that is now frequently referred to as ‘cyber slavery’. @madeinchinajournal.com globalchinapulse.net/global-china...
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Scammed: Dissecting Cyber Slavery in Southeast Asia
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Juanita Elias @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
feminist/queer political economy starter pack is here - let me know who else I need to add
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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 14/11/2024
‘I have lost everything’: southern Africa battles hunger amid historic drought #Climate
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‘I have lost everything’: southern Africa battles hunger amid historic drought
Crops have failed in several countries, with 27m people at risk of hunger according to World Food Programme
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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
A ‘cash-cow’ awareness is rising from these statistics: ‘Chinese students make up 1/4 of all international students and the £2.3bn fees they pay every year’ www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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UK universities urged to provide better support for students from China
Researchers say Chinese students feel they are treated as revenue sources rather community members
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
instead of spending 10.8 billion dollars on this maybe the city could fund libraries and a functioning subway?
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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
‘According to the 2021 population census, Ghana has a population of 31 million, with 35% aged 0 to 14 years old and 38% young people between 15 and 35 years old.’ The youth will be the determinant demography for this election. www.africanews.com/2024/12/06/t...
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The economy as a key concern for voters in Ghana's Presidential election | Africanews
With a dwindling currency and high inflation, voters are being squeezed by Ghana's economic situation.
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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Our paper is out on International Affairs👇 doi.org/10.1093/ia/i... We use #intersectionality as an analytical tool to expose women’s interlocked subjectivity beyond assumed womanhood & group solidarity in peace negotiations from interviews w/ ☮️ practitioners.‼️Adding women ≠ more peace ‼️
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Intersectionality and women's participation in peace negotiations
This article proposes the concept of a ‘travelling’ intersectionality as an alternative to current high-level practitioners' understanding of gender and th
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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
That after-work walk in Cornwall yesterday.
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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
It was a very rewarding experience teaching this course last year with some really brilliant ethnographer students/participants of the course, and my two inspiring colleagues Cat and Suraj. 🥰Come and join us in February 2025 online if you are doing or planning to do ethnographic fieldwork 🏄🏻‍♀️
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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Working from home today 🍵 Saw our cat in the neighbour’s garden and doubted he was up for anything good 😹
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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Monday on the Penryn campus in #Cornwall.
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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Working on the Penryn campus today. #cornwall @hass-cornwall.bsky.social
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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
My first single-authored paper is out in @Peasant_Journal w/ #OpenAccess. It explores how land shapes women's agency across intersecting identities after the genocide in #Rwanda, and theorises the nexus between land dispossession and gendered violence👇https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2024.2407167
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Land dispossession as continuum of violence: women’s political agency in post-genocide Rwanda
The article investigates how gender and class shape women’s political empowerment in post-genocide Rwanda, where access to land creates gendered networks for women to exercise their political agenc...
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University of Exeter Humanities and Social Sciences, Cornwall @hass-cornwall.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
We're excited to be bringing Tayo Aluko's highly acclaimed performance of Just An Ordinary Lawyer to Penryn Campus on Friday 22 November. Open to all staff, students, and members of the public. Reserve your free ticket on Eventbrite to secure your spot: www.eventbrite.co.uk/.../just-an-....
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University of Exeter Humanities and Social Sciences, Cornwall @hass-cornwall.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The Exeter South Asia Centre is delighted to co-host the annual 'Writing from a Position of Anger' lecture, which will be delivered by leading postcolonial scholar Rahul Rao on Dec 2 at 12PM in Peter Lanyon Lecture 5 on Penryn campus.
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Gregorio Bettiza @gregoriobettiza.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The Center of Advanced International Studies, which brings together the IR crowed at @uniofexeter.bsky.social, has its own account @cais-exeter.bsky.social . Do follow us, we are an eclectic bunch!
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